Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it..
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve..
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person..
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be..
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely..
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters..
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!.
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might h….
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable..
She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private..
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again..
Faultless in spite of all her faults..
Sense will always have attractions for me..
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a….
“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”.
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that….
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition..
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread a….
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not..